New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-25
FORCES MAKING FOR PEACE
ENGLAND WILL NOT FIGHT TO SUPPORT
CANADAS WILD CLAIMS.
pIsMARCKs VICTORY cooLs THE REvENGEFUL
ARDoR OF FRANCE-RUssA NOT READY TO
FIGHT-LoRD wOLsELEYs FUIsoME
PRAISE OF GENERAL LEE AND
HIS FELLOW -REBELS-MR.
IRvING's READING
OF "HAMIETO

Copvrioht, 1887. North American Gable Neps Co.
LONDON. Feb. 24.-Dspatches from America
describing the progress of the retahatory measures
against Canada closely scanned here' anu
though little is said, the feeling at the hhsi's"
Foreiyn Office NAV be and ought to be very plainly
stated Lord Salisbury's action wfil no1 pc uo
termined by what the Canadians say or do' ouC
nv what the American Government, Congress ana
Tho neople say and do The Canadian modus VI
yendi. receirt of which Sir James Ferguson has
acknowledged, may may not be approved but
this 90, ernment looks to Washington, not To Ot-
tawa En- land will, in the opinion of those quail
ifed TO judge, give in If she believes we are IN
earnest but buster will not convince her.
Sreeches like that Of Senator Ingalls, are taken
here at their true value and so is the remarKa-
BILE proI hecy of Representative Rice Of Massachu-
sets. that America would in case OF war uh-
doubtedly whip England. Such outbursts are
criticised as matters of TASTE and not otherwise
What Lord Salisbury respects is the unanimous
vote of the House Of Representatives for yestcr-
dov's bill Congress and the Government have
only to r,rscve-c in their present poncy 10 VIII
The feeling here for the Colonies is strong. ana
this Ministry wants no quarrel with canada; puI
it wants one still less with America. All the
talk about war passes as tall talk but oe-
lieve it certain that firm good sense at WashlnS-
ton backed by public opinion will carry the day.
tions is decisive enough to put an end TO war
scares for the present. He appealed to Germany
to give him q majority for measure which he
declared to be essential to peace; and he has got
it. The new Reichstag promises TO be the most
Bismarckian known for many years; perhaps
since 1866. Ills appeal, moreover, was Tor a vote
of confidence in himself; and that Too he mas
got. Europe sees, and France particularly that
Prince Bismarck has Germany as much as ever
at his back and there will be less talk In france
for some time to come about "revanche.' Such
of the English as still believe in war point TO
Russia as the coming disturber of peace, but
at the Foreign Onice the opinion is that Russia
will not STIR She no longer intends military
occupation of Bulgaria and circumstances are NOT
favorable for a step toward Constantinople.
The House of Commons continues TO be almost
entirely occupied with the question of It's own
procedure. Closure in some form seems certain
to be adopted by large majority. but nothin=
SO simple and efficient as the American previous
question" has yet been proposed. Mr. Parnelis
amendments are avowedly obstructive in character.
and the Irish members say they and many Others
will be pressed.
Mr. Brights friends are grieving over what
they think his reckless charges OF cruelty com
mitted by the In. lsh troops at Abu klea. His
named officer are cOntradicted point blank by
Lord Wolseley, who was not present. and more
circumstanLially by the correspondent OF line
Daily News, who was present, and by Alr. Charles
Williams Of The Chronicle, who was not ohi!
at Abu klca but on the spot al The Time wheh
the atrocities are alleged TO have taken plaee
Mr. Williams declares that the story is not true
and Civ es full details proving that IL Is not True
Lord wolscley's article on General Lee in
:"Macmillan's Ma azne7 fer March is collection
of suuerlaliNes Its tone from beginning TO emu
is one of unmeasurcd panegyric on the man whom
Lord Wolseley calls the greatest soldier OF ids age
and the most perfect man he ever met lie WilteS
throu, hout as a partisan OF The dead Cohicuci
acy be. inning with the remark that an uii
preludiced outsider will generally admit The soN-
ereign right both historical and legal, OF each
State under the Constitution to leave the Cnloh
when its people thought ft lie gives "a sNe'c'
Of General Lees life which contains little that is
new, and some interesting "reminiscences OF hiS
own about him ; and he repeats the stale views
once current but long discreditcd In London
society," He treats the rebellion as the struggle
Of a small population, wlh no help from outside
nv blocla &c runners or otherwise, against u rlch
republic with all Europe for its recruiting gfouhd
The Northern invaders" says Lord w Woseley
"were driven back from Bull Kun across inc
Potomac like herds of frightened sheep. lie
Processes res, ect for the logged deern nation OF
the Northern troops, and for "the chivalrous
yalor Of the gallant men whom General Lee
led to victory, fighting for those rights most
pized by frccmen. both sides' auhh's
Lord Wolseley,. fought we'll But so low Is
his opinion of the military quality of both that h'
declares the cooperation Of one army corps oi
regular troops would have given complete
victory to whichever side it fought on. Antietam
is described as q Rebel victory Gettysburg as
drawn battle: and General Shermans march as
g. lendid but aim st unopfosed. The proportion
Of Fedcras to Confederates in each actlon through
out the war; he says, was Two or three 10 ohc'
and General Lees ultimate failure was due 10 MS
mistaken obedience to president Davis. Almost
the only criticism on his hero that Lord WOseley
stig. ests is that he too sOft-hearted and TOO
ubservicnt t0 the civil authorities; whereas he
ought to have made himself dictator. But where
else in history" cries this British general in his
peculiar Enclish, is a great man to be found
whose whole life one such blamelcss record
Of duty nobly done p General Lee alone, among
eli great men, impressed him as man cast In
q different mould and made Of different and
finer metal than other men; being apart and
superior to all others in every way. Early In
this amazing article Lord Woseley admits That
the success of the Rebellion would have broken
the Union into many small fragments anu aO oiic
end calls upon 10 recognize the man who dld
his best to bring this wreck upon us as the great
American Of the nineteenth century, who lowered
far above all men ON either side in that struggle
and whose statue is well worthy to stand on an
equal pedestal with Washnoton's. This sort OF
talk might pass muster in the mess room after
dinner but in a printed article it only impair
Lord Wolselcy's reputation for Judgment and dis
cretion.
Mr.. Henry Irving's recitation Of Hamlet on
Ash Wednesday evening drew q large and dis
tiucuished audience to the Birkbeck Institute far